The explosive combination of director Nicolas Roeg (Performance, Don’t Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth) and writer Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective) created one of British cinema’s most unique and disquieting works – the hugely underrated Track 29.
Freely adapted from Potter’s BBC TV play Schmoedipus, this unsettling film stars Theresa Russell (Bad Timing, Black Widow) as an unhappy, possibly unstable, housewife who welcomes a young man (Gary Oldman – Prick Up Your Ears, Darkest Hour) into her home when he claims to be her long-lost son...
Ambitious, ambiguous and surreal, Track 29 is a kinky psychological send-up of American mores – a view from the dis-united states of consciousness. The glorious supporting cast includes Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), Sandra Bernhard (The King of Comedy) and Colleen Camp (The Swinging Cheerleaders).
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- The NFT Interview with Nicolas Roeg (1994, 68 mins): archival audio recording of the celebrated filmmaker in conversation at London’s National Film Theatre
- Audio commentary with filmmaker and historian Jim Hemphill
- Postcards from Cape Fear (2019, 18 mins): actor Colleen Camp recalls the experience of working with Nicolas Roeg
- On the Right Track (2019, 10 mins): editor and longtime Roeg collaborator Tony Lawson discusses the construction of the film
- An Air of Mystery (2019, 6 mins): costume designer Shuna Harwood details the distinctive look of Track 29
- Buzz and Gossip (2019, 15 mins): sound mixer David Stephenson reflects on the challenges of making the film
- Isolated music & effects track
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Danny Leigh, Dennis Potter and Theresa Russell on Track 29, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits